Jefferey Reese

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How evangelicals, once culturally confident, became an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living memory<p>One of the most extraordinary things about our current politics—really, one of the most extraordinary developments of recent …

The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun. Today, millions believe they did. Here’s how it happened.<p>“A fraud on the American public.” That’s how former Chief Justice Warren Burger described the idea that the Second Amendment gives an unfettered individual right …

Angela Duckworth, in her best-selling book, “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,” celebrates a man whom she calls a “grit paragon”: Pete Carroll, the coach of the Seattle Seahawks, who led the team to a Super Bowl victory in 2014. It seems that Carroll had seen Duckworth’s <i>TED</i> talk nine …

In Greek mythology, the Olympians were said to drink ambrosia, which bestowed upon them immortality. Occasionally, athletic heroes like Heracles were also gifted a sip. But the myths don't say much about the golden-amber liquid getting them all drunk.<p>Today's Olympians have been swept up in a new …

"Trauma" is a heavy and haunting word. For many Americans, it conjures images of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The emotional toll from those wars made headlines and forced a healthcare reckoning at the Department of Veterans Affairs.<p>Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician, would like …

Buying a laptop has traditionally meant juggling price, graphics performance, weight and battery life. You want a powerful gaming laptop with good battery life? Sorry about that six-pound weight, bro. Looking for a lightweight, inexpensive laptop to take to events? Forget about playing games or …

<i>Editor’s note:</i> <i>This map is updated from one originally published in April 2017.</i><p>The under-construction Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences One Dalton Street—a.k.a. One Dalton—will become Boston’s third-tallest building once it’s finished toward the end of 2018.<p>It will trail only 200 Clarendon and …

The U.S. soccer team beats the world in hustle. There's a lesson there for business.<p>At the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil, the U.S. midfielder Michael Bradley put up a statistic that wowed folks back home: He ran further than anyone else. Through three games, Bradley had covered a total …

He had had enough. A man in China's Jiangsu province decided he would be the change [in the traffic patterns] he wished to see in the world — or, in this case, in his daily commute.<p>The Modern Express reports that a man named Cai was questioned by police for repainting traffic arrows on roads in the …

Despite the Paradise Papers’ revelations, most British people prefer to focus on the perceived crimes of the poor. We must show how tax avoidance harms us all<p>The Paradise Papers have once again revealed the ingenuity and energy the super-rich are willing to deploy to keep their money away from the …